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Begonya Plaza

BEGONYA PLAZA

  (1966 - )
Nationality:    USA / Spain
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Begonya Plaza, born 12 July 1966, performed the role of Carlotta in her first produced Off-Broadway play, Teresa's Ecstasy, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC, this past March 2012. Ms. Plaza's writing credits include Talk Show, in which historical characters Evita Peron, Simon Bolivar, Dolores Ibarruri, and antonio Machin are interviewed by God on a live present day talk show. the Persistence of Memory, a screenplay about one year in the life of Salvador Dali and his muse, Gala, with the confirmed interest from Glenn Close to play the role of Gala; Souvenir Views, a 24-minute documentary about New York's 9/11 tragedy that premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival, displayed at the Festival International del Nuevo Cine LatinoAmericano, and aired nationally on the Independent Film ChAnnel; American Hero, a 15-minute short film that contemplates the ravages of war as an Iraqi veteran returns home; and Gernika Lives, a personal documentary narrated by John Randolph that explores Ms. Plaza's Basque heritage and the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Acting stage credits include In Arabia We'd All Be Kings directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman; Austrian director Kurt Palm's one-woman show of erotic songs and poems by Bertolt Brecht, Yevgeny Lanskoy's Yerma at Ensemble Studio West; and Marty Zurla's Friends. Ms. Plaza has been directed by Michael Mann, Clint Eastwood, Amy Jones, Oliver Stone, Tim Hunter, and Walter Hill. She has acted opposite Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Klaus Kinski, Roddy McDowall, and Caroll O'Connor, and starred in the CBS series, "Dark Justice," shot on location in BarcelonA.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         (Title TBD)         Talk Show         Teresa's Ecstasy
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Talk Show

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Jackie Shark is the HOST, the JOKER, and God, in an interview "Talk Show" setting, she sits with Spanish & Latino historical characters: Eva Peron, Simon Bolivar, Dolores Ibarruri, and Antonio Machin. the guests humorously flaunt past heroic actions that will unveil humbling secrets which ultimately lead them on a cathartic path to liberation from the cycle of rebirth or not; depending on which of the two doors is chosen and how attached to this world they still are.

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Reading At La Nacional: 239 West 14th Street, NY     23 Sep 2011

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Teresa's Ecstasy

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Teresa's Ecstasy is about love versus suffering, and the female archetype represents love, while the male achetype represents suffering. Carlotta is a writer, living alone in New York, but still legally married to a man in Barcelona, Andres. Inspired by the message of Saint Teresa of Avila, she begins to write about her and see the parallels in her own life. Carlotta and her publisher/editor of the magazine who she's writing the story on Saint Teresa for, make a stop over in Barcelona, on their way to Avila. Becky has an office in Barcelona and that night, her business associate will take her for a night out on the town, while Carlotta stays at Andres' so that the couple can figure out their relationship and settle their situation, over gazpacho, jamon and wine. Although there is an obvious strong kinship between the two women, what is not revealed in act I is that Becky is a lesbian, and is secretly captivated by Carlotta. Andres and Carlotta love each other, but it's evident that these two people are very different, for while Carlotta opens up to possibilities, to growth, to change, to exploring life more fully, Andres rejects, resents, blames and judges everything Carlotta is interested in, especially Saint Teresa, and even Becky. Becky is an ambitious, competitive, successful, confident New York female, who automatically rubs Andres the wrong way. Becky is as candid, blunt, and self involved as Andres, thus their opposition creates a wonderously humorous bi-cultural standoff. Carlotta, isn't completely certain of what she wants with Andres. there are moments where perhaps, if Andres played his cards right, their relationship would be saved, and that would be a good thing as we see that the two are best friends, and Carlotta yearns for that. But Andres is too set in his ways, and can't help himself from hurting Carlotta. Andres has charm, and loves attention, and will contradict, it seems, anything and everything, if only to take center stage. It is clear that Carlotta is on a quest, and committed, this time, to resolving the doubts, pain, and inbalance that their fancy free relationship festers in her. According to Andres, men are much simpler, they either get a hard on or they don't. Carlotta asks herself aloud, were you always like this. In the end, the two women return from Avila, in love. Saint Teresa has assured them that love is not for others to approve, except one's own heart. Saint Teresa was forsaken, for her transcendental love of God, as she survived the Inquisition, and the male dominated persecuting society of her time.

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Music By: Albert Carbonell

1st Produced:
Cherry Lane theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014     04 Mar 2012

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Avila Productions

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